Word: pendentive
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...Communist rebel chieftains in northern Malaya to see if some sort of settlement could be worked out. "My ideas about Communism were determined by that meeting," says the Tunku. "I became convinced that once a Communist, always a Communist. They could never coexist with us in an inde pendent Malaya...
Katanga's Moise Tshombe is not the only secessionist to break off a piece of the Congo and call it his own. He is merely the richest. In the backcountry, other little fiefs have declared themselves inde pendent in defiance of central government authority. Zaniest of all is ludicrous little Mining State in South Kasai...
...presidency. In a massive report covering all forms of group practice and sparing none of their shortcomings, the Larson commission paid tribute to the principle of free choice of physician. But it held that this principle is not violated if the patient has free choice between an inde pendent physician and a panel...
...himself could not express what he wanted to say within the romantic tradition. Long before Schoenberg, Stravinsky and other modernists, he experimented with ragtime rhythms and dissonance. A practical man, he also recognized that there was no public for that kind of music, and he was far too inde pendent to try to change his style. Some time before he married his wife, Harmony, he decided that rather than "starve on dissonances'' he would go into the insurance business. He worked first as a clerk at Mutual Life, later helped found the firm of Ives & Myrick, which...
...Rock is almost completely de pendent upon a lunar condition known as the "honey moon," and its assent is along a precalculated bridal path...